DescriptionThis was a class I took on making Crazy Quilts. The first crazy quilt I’ve made. In the past I always wanted to try and make one, never got around to it. I’m glad I took the class. In my quilt...
DescriptionThese pillows began as a whole cloth quilt endeavor, but the Matelassé fabric was too heavy or me to maneuver so I created two toss pillows.
DescriptionThe quilt consists of 18 pieced star blocks, alternating with 17 plain blocks of sky fabric. The blocks are joined in seven rows of five blocks each. The quilt was machine quilted with a cloud...
DescriptionA challenge project - “Quilt with a Book”. The book was Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell. It was a good way to use some of my scrap fabrics. I used stitch-in- the ditch for the...
DescriptionThis was the very first quilt I made. I hand dyed the batiks during a batik workshop conducted by Kokroko in Kumasi, Ghana in July 2010. My sister Tarsha-Nicole Taylor of Tewksbury, MA helped me...
DescriptionThe Ohio Star pattern is a “Quilts of Valor” design. It has interlocking star blocks (Blue, White) that are repeated throughout the quilt. The block consists of three units: Unit 1 – a four...
DescriptionThis was a challenge project. A wall hanging that either depicts a form of oppression or reflects freedom from oppressive conditions. My pieces were copied and blown up, and fused to different...
DescriptionI love doing jigsaw puzzles, you know. I had to make this quilt, it’s the second puzzle quilt I’ve made. First I looked at a color wheel, then I chose my colors. There are many different quilt...
DescriptionWhen my sister and I were younger my mother (Emmie D. Melvin) had given us T-shirts with the Maya Angelou poem Phenomenal Woman on it. I found mine that had been put away. I decided I would make a...
DescriptionIn my quilting guild (NHQG) we were asked to do a wall hanging of a woman that most inspired us. My mother inspired me the most. Growing up, my mother exposed us (my brother and sister and I) to so...
